28 Metaphors for pitying

raceand it is impossible to deny that the heart of the world has grown softer and that pity is becoming more and more a natural instinct in human nature.

Pity was a dangerous solvent in which her will sank and was melted away.

"Theer dunnot seem to be mich amiss, do theer?" she remarked; "it seems a'most a pity to be givin' it sperrits.

He might be taking too much for granted, but romantic pity was a treacherous guide; Janet was pretty and clever, and he was human.

"Pity," he said; "there's a whole dump of them at the bottom of the garden here.

As for mere indignation, in such cases, he had seen enough of that to trust it no more than "ice that is one night old:" but pity for him was a weapon of defence to which he was unaccustomed.

Ah pity, pity, is no succour nigh!

But to descend from Reason to Matter of Fact; the Pity which arises on Sight of Persons in Distress, and the Satisfaction of Mind which is the Consequence of having removed them into a happier State, are instead of a thousand Arguments to prove such a thing as a disinterested Benevolence.

Pity is then your friend.

Pity is a rebel passion.

For herself, she'd long been minded Not with outsides to be blinded; All that pity and compassion, She believ'd was affectation; In her heart she doubted whether Mary car'd a pin for either.

No great man has been more extravagantly admired, and none more bitterly assailed; but generally he is regarded as a fallen star,a man with splendid gifts which he wasted, for whom pity is the predominant sentiment in broad and generous minds.

" "Lady, pity is the meanest gate of love.

"What a pity he returned the letters before Joe had sailed!" "No, it was the right thing to do.

How great a pity was it this tender conversation between two persons who had so pure a passion for each other, who had been absent for some time, and who knew not when, or whether ever they should meet again, could not be indulged with no longer continuance!

Pity and mercy above are not names only; 'tis a great reality that is signified by them, and that hath place here in far higher excellency and perfection than it can with us poor mortals here below.

challenge thine own, as Gloster lies; Pity such muck is cover'd with the skies? FAU.

(How strange to think that there was a time when pity was not the feeling that leaped to Grizel's bosom first!)

All that is in a Man's Power to do to advance his own Pomp and Glory, and forbears, is so much laid up against the Day of Distress; and Pity will always be his Portion in Adversity, who acted with Gentleness in Prosperity.

But, in another sketch of this faultless and unpleasant monster, Seneca presents us, not the proud athlete who challenges the universe and is invulnerable to all the stings and arrows of passion or of fate, but a hero in the serenity of absolute triumph, more tender, indeed, but still without desires, without passions, without needs, who can fell no pity, because pity is a weakness which disturbs his sapient calm!

When you saw Bobby in the Duke's Servant, you said, what a pity such a pretty fellow was only a servant.

" Even to animals the same pity for their sufferings is extendeda pity unusual among the ancients, and still hardly known around the Mediterranean.

That sort of thing inspires pity, and you know as well as I do that pity and love are cousins, but cousins who never marry.

I can conceive great deeds, renunciations, martyrdoms; and though I be fallen to such a crime as murder, pity is no stranger to my thoughts.

All pity is really pain engendered by the feelings that translate one into the place of another.

28 Metaphors for  pitying